1879.] MR. E. A. SMITH ON MOLLUSCA FROM JAPAN. 207 



58. CoLUMBELLA scRiPTA, Lamarck. 



Colwnhella scripfa, Kiener, Coq. Viv. p. 50, pi. 6. f. li, 3a. 



Columhella versicolor, Sowerby, Thesaurus, f. 41-46; Reeve; 

 Conch. Icon. f. 51a, 6. 



Columbella variegata, ]\Ienke, Synops. p. G5. 



Columhella hxdentala, Menke, Moll. Novije Hollandise, p. 23 ; 

 Sowb. Thes. f. 53, 54 ; Reeve, f. 205. 



Hah. Station 8*. 



This species has a wide geographical range, having been recorded 

 from the Philippine Islands, North and South Australia, Annaa 

 Island, and New Caledonia. 



59. Columbella sagena. Reeve. 



Columhella sagena. Reeve, Conch. Icon. fig. 1C2 ; Lischke, Jap. 

 Meeres-Conch. i. p. 58, iii. p. 34, pi. 2. f. 5-7. 



Hab. Stations 8* and 18. 



The variation of this species has been already remarked upon by 

 Lischke. The epidermis, which is generally for the most part 

 worn off when the shell arrives at maturity, is of a dull olivaceous 

 colour and linely lamellated, the lamellse being perpendicular and 

 close together. 



60. Columbella undata, Duclos. 



Columhella undata, Duclos, Monograph, pi. 4. f. 4 ; Kiener, 

 pi. 9. f. 1, pi. 12. f. 3 ; Lischke, iii. pi. 2. f. 1-4. 

 Hab. Stations 8* and 29. 



61. Columbella misera, Sowerby. 



Columhella misera, Sowerby, Thesaurus, fig. Ill ; Reeve, Conch. 

 Icon. fig. 68 ; Lischke, i. p. 59, ii. p. 48, iii. p. 35, pi. 2. f. 10, 11. 



Hab. Station 8*. Nagas.aki (Lischke) ; Sandwich Islands {Pease 

 and Martens). 



The number of costse in this species is considerably variable, there 

 being in some specimens fifteen on the last whorl, whilst in others 

 there are but ten. A pretty constant character of the painting 

 consists of the upper half of the whorls being unspotted, and the 

 costse on that portion opaque snow-white. 



62. Columbella (Atilia) lischkei. (Plate XX. fig. 41.) 



Shell fusiform, narrow, dirty white, blotched at intervals with olive- 

 brown. Whorls 8 ; two apical smooth, globose, rather large, the 

 one or two following longitudinally strongly costate ; ribs thick, 

 with a thin vitreous upper margin ; the remaining volutions a trifle 

 convex, smooth, with minute striations or lines of growth ; the last 

 suddenly contracted below the middle, where it is obtusely angulated, 

 sculptured at the caudal extremity with about eight narrow oblique 

 sulci or striae. Aperture small, indistinctly quadrangular, occupying 

 rather more than oi-.e third of the entire length ; outer lip with a 



